Re: M.I.T. = Overrated Academics

On Jul 29, 9:43 am, deemsb...@xxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 29, 7:49 am, Solnichka Frankenstein



<solnichkafrankenst...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I got a formal email memo, copied to several senior members of staff,
from a colleague who is very proud of his M.I.T. degree -- yet in this
email, he made the following errors in language usage:

- spelled "a lot" as one word
- used apostrophes for multiple plurals
- didn't put question marks at the end of questions
- didn't capitalize days of the week
- didn't put periods at the end of multiple sentences
- randomly capitalized words that were not pronouns or proper names

Mind you, again, this was a formal email memo, not some quickly-sent
note to one person. I swear, if it was up to me, I'd fire this
person's ass in about two seconds. Wait ... it *is* up to me!

Sweet. I get to demonstrate once again that it's not so much *where*
you got your degree from; it's more so what you learned while you were
there.

Oooooh.....firing someone over grammar mistakes in a memo. You must
be so proud of yourself.

Your ellipsis is in error above.

BTW, if someone can't communicate well enough and represent themselves
and the organization properly, it's a perfectly reasonable offense for
termination. Learning grammar is something for kids; adults in public
roles should know how to write. If he didn't learn how to write at
M.I.T., well ... you have the point of my subject header. I'd rather
hire a kid from Wyoming State who can write than an M.I.T. fool who
cannot. After all, you may have the greatest ideas in the world, but
if you can't communicate them clearly, no one will notice.

[Side note: I was watching a TV show the other night on FOX, and the
captions had the same apostrophe mistake with a plural noun. I mean,
seriously -- if you never learned how to use an apostrophe properly,
you should never have received a degree from an accredited university
in this country.]

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